Article Title
Patterns of Scandinavian Bead Use between the Iron Age and Viking Age, ca. 600-1000 C.E.
First Page
3
ISSN
0843-5499
Last Page
30
Abstract
This paper places Johan Callmer’s seminal chronology of Viking-Age beads in the broader contexts of subsequent research. It begins with an examination of how Callmer’s chronology of grave goods can be linked into preceding chronologies from the cemeteries of late Iron-Age Bornholm and mainland Sweden (ca. 540-860). It then considers how these chronologies compare with those available from the early Scandinavian emporium at Ribe, a site of bead production and trade (ca. 700-850). Finally, it provides a detailed analysis of Callmer’s classification system and the implications of his chronological framework (ca. 800-1000 A.D.). Comparing these diverse chronologies reveals divergent patterns of bead use, enriching our understanding of how individuals, communities, and networks connected with each other through beads in the late Iron Age and the early Viking Age.
Publisher Information
The Society of Bead Researchers is a non-profit scientific-educational corporation founded in 1981 to foster historical, archaeological, and material cultural research on beads and beadwork of all materials and periods, and to expedite the dissemination of the resultant knowledge. Membership is open to all persons involved in the study of beads, as well as those interested in keeping abreast of current trends in bead research.
Repository Citation
Delvaux, Matthew
(2017).
"Patterns of Scandinavian Bead Use between the Iron Age and Viking Age, ca. 600-1000 C.E.."
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
29: 3-30. Available at:
https://surface.syr.edu/beads/vol29/iss1/4
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